• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    Even if I were being charitable to say what he meant was not being famous is easier, it’s still such a backhanded remark to make - I’d rather deal with the problems of fame than the looming threat of the poverty line any day of the week.

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      What he means is it would be a lot easier for him to have adult conversations with underage children on the internet if everyone wasn’t always watching him. How’s he going to buy and hang cartoon CP on the walls if he’s poor though?

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      Where I’m from, if you’re evicted at any time during the 9-10 months of winter you’ll probably die unless you find another place in time which can be incredibly difficult and risky depending on why you were evicted.

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      The thing is, in this age, fame is a choice (to those it is given to). He has enough money to retire into obscurity, living a simple life of comfort. He chooses not not to.

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      Learning about idol scenes and how hardcore it is to be an idol makes me feel very uncomfortable, but I somehow find Mr Beast to be a fish worth this ocean. He’s somehow uniquely compatible with what youtube wants now, and I doubt it’s stirs him wrong. In my mind, he echoes what other creators feel about all that bs.

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    if it’s so much easier then just give away every penny why dontcha? oh he only ‘gives’ for content

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    This is why he keeps running his crypto scams. He’s hoping that will lose him money so he can be poor again.

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    the fucked up thing is that it’s almost true, there’s a level of wealth where people are generally optimally happy. Look at people who get enough money to buy a house and comfortably retire early on without needing to worry about affording normal things again, something like that is peak contentment in life.

    I sincerely do not understand why a mentally healthy person would ever want a to be richer than that, it means you have to do a bunch of publicity shit and other miserable stuff and it doesn’t really benefit you much.

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      Broken people can’t afford a house… they are happy if they get through the month with ±0.

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      I think another important factor is how famous you are. I’d imagine it’s really annoying to get recognised anywhere you go…

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        unless of course you’re like mrbeast or the muskrat who seem to love the attention and in fact crave the constant validation of being recognized.

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    Its not the money that makes it harder its the being known by everyone. But having too much money can be more of a burden in theory. (I’ll let you know when I make it if its that bad chat.)

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    Real “Marie Antoinette having an entire fake rustic village built to pretend to be a peasant for a day” energy.

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      Honestly less relatable even than that. At least Marie Antoinette had very little contact to the outside world, so her sheltered life makes sense. Mr. Beast has no such excuse.

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    lol. This is exactly what rich people say. I take it this guy’s a millionaire ?

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    Well you know what they say: mo money, mo problems.

    Which can be extrapolated to no money, no problems. Right?

    Right???